Paul
Lerner

University of Southern California
Charles W. and Sally Rothfeld Fellowship

Research Topic

Jews, Department Stores & German Responses to Mass Consumerism, 1880–1940

Fellowship

2008–2009

Working to expose the shifting linkages between commerce and culture in Jewish life from medieval to modern times.

2015–2016

Exploring aspects of internal life that lie beyond reason—emotions and feelings, the unconscious, sensation, imagination, impulse, intuition, and the nonrational dimensions of reason itself.